Review of \u3ci\u3e The Diefenbaker Legacy: Canadian Politics, Law and Society Since 1957\u3c/i\u3e Edited by D.C. Story and R. Bruce Shepard

John Diefenbaker, Canada\u27s Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963, remarked during his last campaigns as Conservative Party leader, Everybody is against me but the people. The comment, though a quintessential expression of his populism (lightly laced with a touch of paranoia), was not altogether inaccurate. Even after his defeat, Diefenbaker enjoyed folk-hero status with many of those he called average Canadians, but continued, largely, to be dismissed as an incompetent failure by the country\u27s political, academic, and journalistic elites. Denis Smith\u27s 1995 biography, Rogue Tory, was the first balanced, albeit critical, examination of Diefenbaker\u27s career. This new collection of essays, a number from a younger generation of scholars, carries forward the work of re-assessing Diefenbaker\u27s career and his enduring impact